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Bred in the Bone

CHAPTER IX
13/19

It would have made me laugh had I not been so savage.

Carew turned us both out of the house together.

His love of truth would not permit him, it seems, to harbor us.

So Jack and I went to the inn, played _ecarte_ all night, and parted the best of friends this morning.

But I'll be even with that fellow Fane--yes; by Heaven, I will, if it's a score of years hence!" Perhaps the light satiric tone which the young man had used throughout his narrative was little in accordance with the feelings which really agitated him; but, at all events, his last few words were full of malignant passion.
"Be even, Dick, by all means, with every body," observed Mrs.Yorke, coolly, "but do not indulge yourself in revenge.


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